[Patch v5 05/13] usb: otg: add basic mxs phy driver support
Sascha Hauer
s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Wed Jun 13 18:03:17 EDT 2012
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Sascha Hauer,
>
> >
> > This message is rather useless. It is really not expected for kzalloc
> > to fail. If it fails here you really have problems elsewhere and this
> > message won't help you debugging it.
>
> It's not useless, but it'll hardly ever be displayed if you run out of memory so
> badly this kzalloc() will fail.
If you run out of memory while allocating a few bytes it's really
not interesting where exactly this happens. The message won't give
you any hint where you can fix this problem. Also, if you bail out
of a drivers probe function with -ENOMEM you will have a message
in the log anyway.
Sascha
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